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Post by mark on Aug 21, 2023 1:03:40 GMT -8
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Post by CdnPhoto on Aug 21, 2023 3:22:17 GMT -8
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4aapl
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Post by 4aapl on Aug 21, 2023 7:52:57 GMT -8
I'm planning to travel shortly, and you bet I'll have an AirTag in every bag that I check in. If you have them, it's not a bad idea to put them in your normal luggage too. There are times where they want to or have to check your carryon, or where it is not right by you. Things happen, by accident or otherwise.
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Post by 4aapl on Aug 21, 2023 8:56:14 GMT -8
On the software side of things, sometimes there are issues, especially with non-standard cases. Even at Apple, where we would test things quite a bit, over the years there were some things that would slip by. Like one update that I think was in the 10.4-10.6 timeframe, that was hit if the hard drive volume had a certain name or type of format.
For the last couple weeks Yahoo Finance's main page has been lagging for me, big time. But only during market hours. It was so bad that it was nearly unusable, making it so most clicks on stories or tickers didn't go through. But then after maybe 30-60 seconds you could see a price refresh go through my list of ticker symbols.
My lists with Yahoo go back about 25 years, so who knows what strange things could be in there. It shouldn't matter, but...
I went ahead and pruned out any tickers that are no longer active, turned off some lists I didn't care about, and turned off all of the extras that I didn't care about (futures, currencies, crypto, etc). And now it works again!
I'm just mentioning this both because a lot of people use Yahoo Finance, and the stock app even uses their feed. But also as a general thing, that especially if you have some old data that has migrated over the years or decades, if you hit an issue it is always good to try to trim things down a bit.
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Post by CdnPhoto on Aug 21, 2023 9:55:19 GMT -8
speaking of the Stocks app, anyone know how to add option to it? In an Excel spreadsheet, I can get the stock values to auto populate, but not options. Anyone know how?
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Dave
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Post by Dave on Aug 21, 2023 11:26:48 GMT -8
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Post by CdnPhoto on Aug 21, 2023 12:06:30 GMT -8
I went shopping at the close.
Picked up some AAPL.
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Post by 4aapl on Aug 21, 2023 19:49:55 GMT -8
Well that's interesting. ProBoards says our most every logged in users was 574 users about 2 years ago. But at the moment it says:
Hmmmm. I posted our link on a ProBoards admin related page, but I wouldn't think that much of an uptick would be from that. Maybe PED linked to us, or the Bots are attacking. Obviously we need to teach ChatAI to link to this site a bit more.
Just to let you know, especially to the couple of people who have bought "ad-free" credits for the site in the past, I just got around to setting up most of the extra ad-free credits for the next 6 months. ProBoards only lets you do this 6 months out, and extra page views don't roll over. Currently we are getting around 10,000 page views from logged in users, whereas the credits are for up to 50,000 ad-free page views.
I didn't set them up for the remainder of this month, since it is almost over. But seeing a few ads helps us appreciate when they aren't there. Remember to log in to the site when viewing, for an ad-free experience.
And one last thing for the people that look at the nitty gritty with ProBoards. It turns out version 6 that was going to change a bunch of things and make mobile viewing more fluid was put on hold a while back. The good news is that they plan to keep PB available and free for current and new boards, so we should be good for a while and not have to worry about any migration issues.
Nice to see a green day.
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Dave
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Post by Dave on Aug 22, 2023 1:42:22 GMT -8
I noticed that there is a red star by my name now that I don’t remember having been there before. Is this something new that ProBoards has added? It’s been a long time since I’ve had a star by my name.
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4aapl
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Post by 4aapl on Aug 22, 2023 6:09:03 GMT -8
I noticed that there is a red star by my name now that I don’t remember having been there before. Is this something new that ProBoards has added? It’s been a long time since I’ve had a star by my name. It means you are special...just like everyone else Shipping was delayed, but next week we'll get the participation trophies out to everyone. (I was messing around with spam minimization options. One is to limit areas you can post to based on a user's rank, which is how many times they have posted. So I made a rank with a count of 1 post, and gave it a red star. Apparently moderators are excluded. Either that or ProBoards just doesn't think we are special too)
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